Alexandre Giroud looked to make it three in a row in the Dakar Rally's Qaud category. Manuel Andújar ended any hope of that as he notched his second Dakar win.
Guillaume de Mevius took victory for the Overdrive Toyota team in Saturday's first official stage of the 46th Dakar Rally, a 414km/257-mile run from Al-’Ula to Al Henakiyah. It was the Belgian driver's fourth career Dakar stage win, but his first in the premier Ultimate class.
Results from the 2023 Desafio Ruta 40 FIM World Rally-Raid Championship round in Argentina where Monster Energy Honda rider Adrien Van Beveren took the win ahead of Luciano Benavides and Ricky Brabec.
A first-class day for Hero and Audi FOCUS Today, on the third day of the race, the competitors had to tackle a special that was shortened due to the heavy rain that soaked a part of the region of Al Artawiyah. The stage began at the point which should originally have hosted CP1, reducing the timed section by approximately one hundred kilometres. On a loop around Al Qaysumah, the riders and drivers started with a 214-km link section, before 255 km of special, followed by a 166-km return route to the starting bivouac for the second looped stage on the rally. On the menu, there was sand which, thanks to the rain, was heavier and provided better carry. However, there were also chains of dunes through which the competitors had to wind as well as climb, over a distance of 30 km, classed as level 2 difficulty. From the top of these first large dunes, the elite competitors could already